First Floor 507 - 513 Durham Road Gateshead NE9 5EY
Approved on 30 October 2025
Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of offices (Use Class E) to form 2no residential flats (Use Class C3) (Amended Plans and Additional Information received 01.10.2025).
- Received
- 24 June 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Low Fell
- Agent
- Jon Tweddell Planning Ltd
- ReceivedReceived24 Jun
- ValidatedValidated24 Jun
- Consult.Consultation18 Sep
- TargetTarget Date31 Oct
- DecidedDecided30 Oct
Decided in 128 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at First Floor 507 - 513 Durham Road Gateshead NE9 5EY. Gateshead has handled 292 applications of this type. This one was decided in 128 days, 9 weeks longer than Gateshead's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Low Fell. We hold 1,346 applications in total for the NE9 postcode area.
94% of amendment applications at Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- NE9 5EY
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 June 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 18 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 18 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 July 2025
- Target decision date
- 31 October 2025
- Permission expires
- 30 October 2028
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Jon Tweddell Planning Ltd
- Agent address
- Coble Quay Amble Northumberland NE65 0FB
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Richard Smith
- Statutory period
- 129 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 6 August 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Low Fell CA
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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